Naidu Rides Bicycle To Commemorate World Environment Day In Vizag

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday rode a bicycle here to commemorate the World Environment Day.

Donning a light green cap, the chief minister began pedalling from Andhra University (AU) to a hotel where he would participate in a workshop on seafood exports. Public representatives, officials and local people joined Naidu on their bicycles. 

"Today is Environment Day and to increase awareness among people, I will travel on a bicycle. Cycling should become a lifestyle," Naidu said while talking to reporters before



mounting his bicycle. 

Naidu said the AU should set an example for greenery and the environment, directing officials to transform the varsity into a net-zero campus.

The CM decried that temperatures had increased on one hand and cyclones were striking on the other, pointing to the imbalance in the environment.He called on AU, which owns a land bank of 450 acres, to develop solar energy and plant trees in empty places.Naidu said the university should tap solar energy for all its energy needs, among other environmentally friendly initiatives.